The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-15
ONG COURISHIP.
:bers Trials, as Told at His
4, Funeral

'''aii6ers Trials, as Told at His
Z, Funeral. NJ.
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dis IS were always largely attend
: npson; the. ',ade somewhere
ANind they we Interesting in
is. q + thed 7pthot been so
,--anerar as UHc5s 4 + Holm
,oryears-nots sim >. ON children
the Ridge had bcnn killed by a
other. The Sampson Bmgle
H ~ had five hundred sub
" subscription of eighty cents
Iva recorded Uncle Abers death
\ would otherwise have been
Hr,sjacc between the, acknowl-
ms o.of the edltor's receipt of a
|, ! men of muskmelon from his
mi 4 insman, sgd Hankins. and j.
AZ, advertisement of dry-goods
|nds ,I been "just brought i'm every
,,a 4 summer:
'eep regret that we announce the
lged and respected fellow-citizen,
nT allinshead. Mr.. Hollinshead was
nv pioneer settlers OF Sampson, and
.419rned by all who knew him. Mr..
Dead passed from our midst at four
., 'sterday morning, ~ VI. 9 age Of eighty
.irs. The funeral >'otat the home
la, 49, 4 III 10,
lat two o'clock to. Iho' afternoon,
ed by Elder, ComstoUl loshe Baptist
'eebles house was filled to the
discomfort considerably before
5ck. All the chairs, the calico
4 and the impromptu board
were taken up, and a large
,i.on of the company was left
g. The several women who went
funerals unflinchingly, whether
70 the afflicted family or not,
pe early and secured seats COM
hg a view of the parlor, which
EN- opened up. musty from disuse,
occasion, and where the mourn
the pall-bearers sat along the
,cing the coffin in the center OF
n,-their consciousness of the i'm
|ee of their position solemnly visi-
their faces.
70 Abel's death was the subject OF
bdued whispers. Women, the
gravity of whose high cheek
ices wanted nothing for fitness
hour, leaned forward over the
sn they had brought to exchange
coughing behind loose cotton
or hard, large-knuckled hands.
him goin' by jest a-Tuesday,
$ a button, an I says to Rufus:
rs wonderful how Uncle Abel
hep up!'" "He sat down front
stove-hot day twas, too-an'
,ined O. feelin' kind O. chilly; an
hour after he want conscious,
1t mornin' he was dead" "Mis'
sent Sary for our warmin'-pan,
Eent right over; an l see in a
he want never goin' to git
~ lc, the yard was half filled with
nding about in their best clothes
the beds of balsams and late
A long array of dusty buggies
.gting horses, patient with the
f old age, or whinnying and
& their tails with the restless
youth stool outside the fence.
|! 3Sious quiet of the scene had a
s,spect but for the line of dry
hes Tapping in the back yard;
eeble's household programme
not to have been disarranged.
,ll-stone at the side of the house
cupied by half dozen men sit
tn hats pushed to the backs of
eads and hands clasped across
fnees. They were listening,
an unconcern that betok-
indulgence rather than in
Ato the garrility of the
men in their midst. They could
70 been far from Uncle Abel's S
pw that he was gone they were
ms Oldest inhabitants. They
nown rs Ole Levi Cushin' and
.'ncy Mash. The former was
&large and skinny, with face
#ellow, wrinkled in countless
and half covered by white
he wore q calfskin vest. though
was warm, and IL woolen cap
los to his thin-blooded old age.
'ncy Mash was short and cum
)y fat, with baggy white
purply veined, blurred and
eyes, and u protruding under
lch shook with palsied con.
-yis,' he was repeating, in a
|is ,uavering voice, which seemed
" of its past strength; 1--WE wus
y it like brothers allus, Abel an
bout"
~ i'm eyes were on the hearse
|, . Il the front gate. But there
i,. iins borrow in his grotesque old
f..'oj years had blunted his Ca
usol 1t. Ole Levi Cushin' pecred
~ m under his shaggy white
: ~ . sudden warmth Of resent